Top 349 Courtesy Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.

Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

President Obama inherited a one trillion dollar deficit courtesy of George Bush and turned it into a three trillion dollar deficit courtesy of Karl Marx!

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

I was told that karate has a courtesy: 'Start with a bow and end with a bow.' This is something important we value in our lives, because we never forget courtesy and a feeling of gratitude wherever we go.

Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

The grace of God is courtesy.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

All doors open to courtesy.

I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Love may fail, but #? courtesy will prevail.

The greater person is one of courtesy.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous. He gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

I just believe in common courtesy.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.